Former NASA Official Is Accused of Steering Money to Private Client
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 7th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
Former NASA Official Is Accused of Steering Money to Private Client
A former top NASA official was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for allegedly using a temporary NASA post to steer millions of dollars to one of the clients of his consulting business.
In Obama Tax Plan, A Shift of Wealth From the Top Down
It has been called a Robin Hood budget: The spending plan President Obama sent to Congress last week would give the poor new tax cuts, new college loans and a new health care system by taking nearly $1 trillion from the rich in new taxes.
Court Puts Off Decision On Indefinite Detention
The Supreme Court yesterday vacated a lower court’s ruling that the president has the right to indefinitely detain a legal U.S. resident as a terrorism suspect, and put off a decision on one of the most expansive legal claims of the Bush administration.
Recession Snags Plan for Wild Horse Sanctuary
The gauzy dream of Madeleine Pickens, the wife of billionaire T. Boone Pickens, to save thousands of wild horses from government slaughter and turn them free in an “ecosanctuary” is crashing against the reality of bureaucracy and recession.
Obama Speaks at Police Academy Graduation in Ohio
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Thank you. (APPLAUSE) Thank you. (APPLAUSE) Thank you so much. (APPLAUSE) Thank you, everybody. (APPLAUSE) Thank you. (APPLAUSE) Thank you very much. (APPLAUSE) Thank you. Thank you very much. Please, everybody, have a seat. (APPLAUSE) Thank you so much. What a wonderful …
